With Water Smart as a resource, cities are setting goals to reduce consumption and to be more efficient. They are finding that user awareness of water usage does have a real impact.
Nearly 20% of the water produced, treated, and delivered by water utilities is lost to system leaks. New software strategies can help address this inefficiency and lost revenue.
This article provides insights into the many benefits of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) through speaking with AMI hardware and software providers including Jeff Lipton of WaterSmart Software. AMI offers consumers more choices, such as the option to view their water usage in real-time, providing more information to manage consumption, cost, and other decisions about service and usage. AMI also provides higher reliability, more accurate billing, and better quality of water delivery, while keeping the utilities’ water and electricity costs at reasonable levels. These are amongst the many benefits that the manufacturers, developers, and utilities are educating the public with as they introduce these solutions into the market.
As the Internet-of-Things (IoT) revolution continues to connect everything around us, most cities, urban areas, and developed markets are fast becoming smarter and more connected. Water is the next big thing being impacted by this IoT revolution. This article looks at startups innovating in the water industry. WaterSmart Software, a leader in this space, provides advanced intelligence for water utility managers and residential water customers with SaaS visual analytics, reporting, and customer relationship tools.
This article discusses several IoT solutions that enable energy and water conservation, including Pasadena, California’s deployment of WaterSmart Software’s digital and mobile applications to encourage water efficiency amongst residential water consumers.
South Staffs Water is implementing WaterSmart Software to improve water-use efficiency and drive measurable improvements in customer satisfaction as part of a broader program to develop and adopt innovative solutions.
Water scarcity is an increasingly serious issue. This article showcases four companies creatively employing Big Data to combat water scarcity.
Whether considering AMR or AMI metering solutions, both technologies offer improved efficiency and accuracy to otherwise manual metering tasks. This article addresses the benefits of AMR and AMI solutions, and explores how Park City’s Water Department integrated its AMI interval data with WaterSmart Software’s customer self-service portal to provide customers real-time leak alerting, usage analysis, and reports with water saving recommendations.
Learn about West Jordan, Utah Water’s “Bridge to AMI” strategic collaboration with WaterSmart and Master Meter to boost conservation and customer service.
Ed Archuleta, Director of Water Initiatives at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and Advisory Board Member to WaterSmart Software, discusses the future of Texas’ water supplies in the context of large projected economic and population growth, providing a framework for water professionals and community members that ensures available and affordable water supplies into the future.